Terekli-Mekteb

Terekli-Mekteb lies in the Nogai steppe north of the Terek, a dry plain used by pastoral communities. It emerged as a headquarters associated with the Kara-Nogai administration created at the end of the eighteenth century and became one of the area's early settled communities. Its name combines words for trees and a school, recalling features that distinguished the place in the open steppe.